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It's OFFICIAL: We're at SLS FOREVER.

You guys love to ***** about anything and everything, and most of the time you are fricking clueless

This was/is NEVER going to happen. The stadium is no sure thing to be built, and even if voters agree, which a huge uncertainty, it would take years to build. and after all that, and assuming the stadium is football worthy, Ross would have to agree to let us out of a long term lease, when he has no incentive to do so.
 
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Shame on those who actually believed we wouldn't follow through with the 25 year lease at Joe Robbie.......
 
Plan B....let's hope that piece of crap stadium blows up in a fluke accident during the offseason.....with no one inside of course.
 
ball915 said:
Shame on those who actually believed we wouldn't follow through with the 25 year lease at Joe Robbie.......
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Wouldn't be surprised if we re-up for another 25 once Stevie "UM Stands for Michigan but I still love the Gators" Ross gets his improvements. Donna needs to be sure we'll have a home in the 2060's.

Here's our only hope on the matter in the next decade. Loria sells the Marleens to Arison once he's outside the range of having to pay the local government a sale penalty and Micky decides that area should actually be developed. Otherwise, I anxiously await Alonzo Highsmith's latest Twitter updates on his efforts.
 
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Cane Dynasty said:
"### UM has been approached about opening the football season against Alabama in 2017 in Atlanta or LSU in 2018 in Arlington, Tx. UM will consider playing in one but not both."

anyone. anytime. anywhere.

What a joke.
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My sphincter just tightened after reading that.
 
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as long as we're not sacrificing a home game to play in atlanta or texas.. then we should do it..
 
Love the stadium *****ing. If it was in half of the people on here's backyard they still wouldn't show. You want Ross to step the **** up and fix his stadium stop going to his teams games. Don't show on Sundays till he figures it out that he needs to come out of his pocket and renovate the dam thing. Plus the product on Sunday isn't any better then the one currently on Saturdays.
 
Let's put this into perspective: Gator Steve Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is the lease holder. His CEO of the The Related Group Florida is Jorge M. Pérez, who is on UM's BOT, (another Michigan Alum, go figure) and UM's Business School Dean came from the University of Michigan. See the pattern? The only scenario which could benefit UM is the fútbol stadium is built...And no one attends. That is a distinct possibility given the Minor League nature of "Major" League Soccer. This isn't the NASL of the 70s/early-80s, paying big money for top talent. If Miami's team was going into the Primera División via special dispensation from La Liga, yep, they would need 40,000+ easy. This isn't Columbus or Salt Lake or even Seattle (you wonder why UDub fell off of the CFB map? Check out soccer Mom and Dad at a Sounders game), it's MIAMI. People here can follow all the foreign leagues (many in their mother tongue) and know where the best fútbol is being played...And it is not in the MLS.

Sooooo...the Miami MLS team, Un-clutch Penalty Shot Beckham or not, FAILS. The City of Miami/Miami-Dade County, circa 2020, is post Regalado/Giménez and is desperate to have a tenant for the 25,000 seat eyesore which they inherited when Beckham's team went belly-up. They beg The Related Group to come in and re-develop the area, modernise/replace AAA (a bit long in the tooth by then) and expand the stadium to bring in said tenant (READ: UM). Ross, if still alive, would be 80, and he and Perez (by then 70) would make their last big deal where Perez started it all, in Miami.

And that friends is how you MAY get a new stadium, in the world of crony capitilism and "private-public partnerships"
 
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Anyone who thought we weren't going to be at SLS for a long time when the lease was inked is a complete and total fool. Ross had the only available stadium around and you can bet the farm his deal to us greatly favors him in every way. Beckham and company I'm sure knew this and perhaps there's some sort of weird out in the contract, but I wouldn't be surprised one bit if the entire thing was to drum up more free media attention for what he's doing.
 
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UCF and FIU have their own stadiums but we don't what a joke....here's to the next 18 yrs. of irrelevancy in SLS........we have the worst Administration in America

R.I.P. Orange Bowl

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ramcanes said:
It really is a failure on the AD. We could have worked out a deal for both parties mutual benefit. They're building a fantastic Grand Central Station blocks away from stadium location http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/28/v-print/4142796/miami-orlando-train-executives.html With this station and MetroMover/Metrorail parking shouldn't have been an issue for a 40K stadium.
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Failure on Dahhhhna too. If she really wanted to be included then she should have exerted some pressure on the local politicians. They're obviously easily manipulated as they instantly kissed Royal Caribbean's a$$ for the two seconds they removed their lips from Beckham's. This athletic department and this administration is obviously open to leaving SLS but you just have to gift wrap them a new venue apparently.
 
NoVaCaneFan said:
UCF and FIU have their own stadiums but we don't what a joke....here's to the next 18 yrs. of irrelevancy in SLS........we have the worst Administration in America

R.I.P. Orange Bowl

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Miami's football success or failure will be because of coaching, not a stadium.
 
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CaneFan79 said:
Let's put this into perspective: Gator Steve Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is the lease holder. His CEO of the The Related Group Florida is Jorge M. Pérez, who is on UM's BOT, (another Michigan Alum, go figure) and UM's Business School Dean came from the University of Michigan. See the pattern? The only scenario which could benefit UM is the fútbol stadium is built...And no one attends. That is a distinct possibility given the Minor League nature of "Major" League Soccer. This isn't the NASL of the 70s/early-80s, paying big money for top talent. If Miami's team was going into the Primera División via special dispensation from La Liga, yep, they would need 40,000+ easy. This isn't Columbus or Salt Lake or even Seattle (you wonder why UDub fell off of the CFB map? Check out soccer Mom and Dad at a Sounders game), it's MIAMI. People here can follow all the foreign leagues (many in their mother tongue) and know where the best fútbol is being played...And it is not in the MLS.

Sooooo...the Miami MLS team, Un-clutch Penalty Shot Beckham or not, FAILS. The City of Miami/Miami-Dade County, circa 2020, is post Regalado/Giménez and is desperate to have a tenant for the 25,000 seat eyesore which they inherited when Beckham's team went belly-up. They beg The Related Group to come in and re-develop the area, modernise/replace AAA (a bit long in the tooth by then) and expand the stadium to bring in said tenant (READ: UM). Ross, if still alive, would be 80, and he and Perez (by then 70) would make their last big deal where Perez started it all, in Miami.

And that friends is how you MAY get a new stadium, in the world of crony capitilism and "private-public partnerships"
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1: Miami's MLS franchise will not fail financially. The league won't let it happen. MLS averages higher per game attendence than the NBA.

2: You are saying UW had a down turn in their football program because of the Seattle Sounders? Not sure I agree with that. They had the same problem that we do, poor coaching hires.

We aren't leaving SLS anytime soon.
 
Cane Dynasty said:
CaneFan79 said:
Let's put this into perspective: Gator Steve Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is the lease holder. His CEO of the The Related Group Florida is Jorge M. Pérez, who is on UM's BOT, (another Michigan Alum, go figure) and UM's Business School Dean came from the University of Michigan. See the pattern? The only scenario which could benefit UM is the fútbol stadium is built...And no one attends. That is a distinct possibility given the Minor League nature of "Major" League Soccer. This isn't the NASL of the 70s/early-80s, paying big money for top talent. If Miami's team was going into the Primera División via special dispensation from La Liga, yep, they would need 40,000+ easy. This isn't Columbus or Salt Lake or even Seattle (you wonder why UDub fell off of the CFB map? Check out soccer Mom and Dad at a Sounders game), it's MIAMI. People here can follow all the foreign leagues (many in their mother tongue) and know where the best fútbol is being played...And it is not in the MLS.

Sooooo...the Miami MLS team, Un-clutch Penalty Shot Beckham or not, FAILS. The City of Miami/Miami-Dade County, circa 2020, is post Regalado/Giménez and is desperate to have a tenant for the 25,000 seat eyesore which they inherited when Beckham's team went belly-up. They beg The Related Group to come in and re-develop the area, modernise/replace AAA (a bit long in the tooth by then) and expand the stadium to bring in said tenant (READ: UM). Ross, if still alive, would be 80, and he and Perez (by then 70) would make their last big deal where Perez started it all, in Miami.

And that friends is how you MAY get a new stadium, in the world of crony capitilism and "private-public partnerships"
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1: Miami's MLS franchise will not fail financially. The league won't let it happen. MLS averages higher per game attendence than the NBA.

2: You are saying UW had a down turn in their football program because of the Seattle Sounders? Not sure I agree with that. They had the same problem that we do, poor coaching hires.

We aren't leaving SLS anytime soon.
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Pretty sure they'd just demolish said failed privately financed futbol stadium at that point any way as A) the land is the real value and B) a 20000 seat venue would take about 3 hours to get rid of.
 
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Tad Footeball said:
Cane Dynasty said:
CaneFan79 said:
Let's put this into perspective: Gator Steve Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is the lease holder. His CEO of the The Related Group Florida is Jorge M. Pérez, who is on UM's BOT, (another Michigan Alum, go figure) and UM's Business School Dean came from the University of Michigan. See the pattern? The only scenario which could benefit UM is the fútbol stadium is built...And no one attends. That is a distinct possibility given the Minor League nature of "Major" League Soccer. This isn't the NASL of the 70s/early-80s, paying big money for top talent. If Miami's team was going into the Primera División via special dispensation from La Liga, yep, they would need 40,000+ easy. This isn't Columbus or Salt Lake or even Seattle (you wonder why UDub fell off of the CFB map? Check out soccer Mom and Dad at a Sounders game), it's MIAMI. People here can follow all the foreign leagues (many in their mother tongue) and know where the best fútbol is being played...And it is not in the MLS.

Sooooo...the Miami MLS team, Un-clutch Penalty Shot Beckham or not, FAILS. The City of Miami/Miami-Dade County, circa 2020, is post Regalado/Giménez and is desperate to have a tenant for the 25,000 seat eyesore which they inherited when Beckham's team went belly-up. They beg The Related Group to come in and re-develop the area, modernise/replace AAA (a bit long in the tooth by then) and expand the stadium to bring in said tenant (READ: UM). Ross, if still alive, would be 80, and he and Perez (by then 70) would make their last big deal where Perez started it all, in Miami.

And that friends is how you MAY get a new stadium, in the world of crony capitilism and "private-public partnerships"
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1: Miami's MLS franchise will not fail financially. The league won't let it happen. MLS averages higher per game attendence than the NBA.

2: You are saying UW had a down turn in their football program because of the Seattle Sounders? Not sure I agree with that. They had the same problem that we do, poor coaching hires.

We aren't leaving SLS anytime soon.
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Pretty sure they'd just demolish said failed privately financed futbol stadium at that point any way as A) the land is the real value and B) a 20000 seat venue would take about 3 hours to get rid of.
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Good point. I just don't see how it would fail from a financial standpoint though. The MLS is doing quite well right now.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2013/11/20/major-league-soccers-most-valuable-teams/
 
NVA CANE said:
Why can't we play both bama and LSU? It's two different seasons.

Cant believe we are stuck at SLS. Worst athletic department in the country
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Because that would mean playing both in '18, assuming its home-home. If not, I'd rather us play someone other than another SEC team back to back as our major OOC game
 
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NoVaCaneFan said:
UCF and FIU have their own stadiums but we don't what a joke....here's to the next 18 yrs. of irrelevancy in SLS........we have the worst Administration in America

R.I.P. Orange Bowl

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FIU's stadium sits like 10000.

land prices at Orlando can't compare to that in Coral Gables.
 
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